Chapter 105: Taking the Opportunity to Make Trouble (Part II)

At this time, the king of Chu was scolding stupidity.

"Isn't it stupid to use the untouchables in the sense of the law and the law as the backbone of the army, and then call on them to defend the system of the noble and the lowly?"

"You will never understand why soldiers were the backbone of the three armies in the past! Because the soldiers are protecting their own interests, but now they let the foot soldiers become the pillars of the three armies and do not give them benefits, isn't it stupid? ”

"I said a long time ago that when gunpowder appears, the military system must be changed, the civilian system must also be changed, and the old system can no longer be used, but there is a lot of opposition, isn't it stupid?"

"Only change the military system, not the civilian system, sooner or later, one day, Chu will not be Chu, and the country will not be a country!"

"Or, put an end to all new weapons, completely retro, destroy all new things, and be courteous in the patriarchal law, so that one samurai can fight a hundred people, and the village archers are all well-fed commoners, continue to use chariots, continue to use bronze soldiers, continue to use bows and arrows."

"Or, you have to change the law!"

Xiong Su is angry that the nobles of the Chu State are putting a noose around their necks without knowing whether they are alive or dead, the times have changed, there are firearms, but only the composition of the army has not changed, the military system and the civilian system have not changed, what is it not death?

If you want your privates to have combat effectiveness, you have to train your troops according to the method of Sishang.

To train the troops according to the method of Sishang, it was necessary to issue weapons to the common serfs and organize them.

Organizing them to give them weapons, but losing the tactical confrontation advantage of the samurai class under the old system, and then continuing to oppress the people even more intensively, is this not the same as looking for death?

Zuo Yin, who is a nobleman, stepped forward and said, "The king is too worried. The people are ignorant and dull, and the rabble. ”

"Guan Ziyan: The rabble, although there is joy at the beginning, will vomit after that, although it is good and not close."

"If there is no phoenix as the head bird, even if the foolish people gather, they will dissipate and harm each other in the future."

"This matter, because there is a person who has a good person in command, as long as you send three armies to kill it, there is nothing to worry about."

In the past, the thieves led more than 9,000 people to revolt, crisscrossing the southwest of Shandong, attacking the city and plundering the land, and now it is called the thief.

However, after all, the thieves are still from the nobility, and the grandparents are still Lu Hou, after all, the Zhan clan originated from Lu Hou's son Gongzi Zhan, and from the coup d'état that year, the son of the emperor begged to Zhan as the clan, so there was a Zhan clan, and when the thieves were in this generation, they were still regarded as their own family members within the aristocracy, so when the nobles talked about it, they could be called both thieves and Zhan Zhan.

Zuo Yin's meaning is that we have ruled like this and ruled for a thousand years, and the people are generally fine, if it weren't for an internal traitor like Zhan Nao, he would not be a good nobleman, and he would have nothing to do when he was full of food and support, but he thought that the current system was unreasonable, and the people were ignorant and not necessarily in the market, so it was okay to knead it.

You see, now that there is an accident here in Anlu, isn't it also because there are people from noble backgrounds, who have nothing to do to pursue real equality and the well-being of the people?

Therefore, Zuo Yin believes that the key to the problem is not to change the law, but to solve the people who have the ability to lead the people to revolt.

Anyone who thinks that it is necessary to benefit the people, to be equal, to love each other, and to oppose unjust wars is suspected of being guilty of ink, and should be executed as soon as possible.

As soon as Xiong Su heard this, he immediately understood what Zuo Yin wanted to say.

Sure enough, after Zuo Yin finished speaking, he said: "There are more and more people who are spreading their feet today, and the root cause is that the chaotic doctrine of the Mo family in Sishang is spreading everywhere, so that from Yan Zhi Juyong to Chu Zhi Jiuzhi, there are many people who talk about the morality of the Mo family. ”

"Just like the study of the peasants, there is nothing in the turbulent times in itself, it is nothing more than a plea for the king to give land for cultivation, but since the doctrine of the Mohists has been widely spread, the doctrines of the peasants have become a little more violent, no longer pleading but more horrific words such as persecution and extermination."

"That's why, if you want the society of Chu to last for a long time and the temple to be stable, you must get rid of the ink in Chu."

"Now the ink scholar is lecturing in the big city and the giant city, and there are even more ink scholars who are in the name of inheriting the ambition of Dayu to travel in Chu to measure the mountains and rivers, these people have now been controlled, as long as they are all killed, they can be worry-free."

Zuo Yin cleverly reverted the topic back to the content of "purging the ink of Chu", and after the coup d'état of the Song state, many ink practitioners who were openly active were controlled and restricted, including those young people who carried telescopes and various instruments to measure mountains and rivers.

The nobles were very dissatisfied with the law change policy of the king of Chu, and the attitude of the king of Chu towards the Song State incident and the decision to take a step back and stabilize the internal reform first made the nobles resentful.

There were once nobles who hoped that they couldn't defeat Sishang in the way of "going down to the top", and couldn't kill the inkers who were active in their fiefdoms?

As long as you do it, then there is no possibility of reconciliation between Chu and Sishang, and then you can force the king of Chu and Sishang to go to war, and then the change of Chu will be interrupted, the nobles and the royal power will have to make peace, and the power of the nobles will be guaranteed.

However, the king of Chu has a new army and elite Che Guang in his hands, as well as righteousness and prestige over the years, and the nobles also have their own thoughts about each other.

If I kill you but don't, and the king kills my whole family for disobeying the king's order and wants to return to my fiefdom, wouldn't that be unjustly dead?

Although the king of Chu did not order that the Mo family was not allowed to kill the Mo people and the surveyors who were engaged in public activities, he did not say that he would be killed, and there was an agreement with the Mo family before, that is, the Mo family could freely give lectures in the Chu country, build sacrificial altars, etc., in exchange for a loan from Sishang, so if a nobleman made the first move, the king of Chu actually had a reason to kill.

Xiong Su heard Zuo Yin mention this, and couldn't help but secretly guess in his heart, could it be that the nobles led this uprising to intimidate themselves, so that they could oppose Mexico, interrupt the change of law, and start a war against Sishang?

After all, the power is divided to the nobles, and he is still the king of Chu, and the family can still be inherited.

But if the people seize power, I am afraid that the temple will be overwhelmed, after all, the common people do not have a surname, nor is it the surname Xiong.

There are so many doctrines of the Mo family, and the king also likes Shang Xian and the like to curb the power of the aristocracy, but the sentence of choosing a sage as the Son of Heaven is too terrible.

Especially after the Mohists recognized the Taoist sentence "Tao is natural" and kept advocating "Tao is Tianzhi", this problem is even more serious.

Taoism is natural, what is nature? In ancient times, the selection of a sage as the Son of Heaven was a natural state, so the Taoism naturally carried the "law" and "providence" for the selection of the sage as the Son of Heaven.

The king of Chu naturally has his own worries, but he also understands that with the current policy of the Mo family, it is actually possible to follow the path of the Mo family and make the Mo family have no way out. The concentration of land in the hands of the aristocracy, the elimination of the aristocracy, and the creation of a large number of free peasants and yeoman peasants, would not it be possible to alleviate the contradictions and strengthen the royal power by the way?

The people are full, except for the nobles who are idle and have nothing to do, how many will ponder things like choosing the Son of Heaven and everyone being equal? Besides, even if someone takes the lead, how many people will rebel?

The problem now is not absolute land annexation, but the system of sub-feudalism, which makes it impossible to strengthen the royal power, the central government has no money, cannot organize the people to reclaim the land that could not be cultivated in the Iron Age, and the people want to reclaim the land themselves......

In fact, there are solutions that can be solved, but the nobles do not agree to all these solutions.

To strengthen the royal power, officials are needed, and now half of the literate scholars are nobles, and half of them have grown up watching the paper books of the Mo family since childhood, which is full of equality and love for the people, which makes the king of Chu very desperate.

With the first half of the people, it is equivalent to letting those people get rid of their own lives, but I'm afraid that as soon as the order is given, those people will first take the life of the king of Chu, and then change to the king of Chu.

With the back half of the people, they are afraid that after the death of the nobles is over, this group of people wondered why the king of Chu was the king of Chu who also took the life of the king of Chu away.

Xiong thought about it for a while, and only then did he realize the terrible features of the two inconspicuous technologies of "straw silk" and "printing".

Straw silk and paper increased the population of the literate class, and of course, the material basis of the agricultural revolution, which made the world's "leisure class" more and could support more non-agricultural population.

The secrets of printing are in the hands of the Mohists, so that all the travelers in the world recognize the horizontal and vertical words of the Mohists, and discuss the revised Mohist doctrines of equality and love.

These two things, which appeared in twenty years, completely shattered the sacredness of the blood of the nobility; And the popularization of gunpowder blew up the basis of the violent rule of the aristocracy.

The legal reason is gone, and the violence can't be beaten, isn't the world of the noble and the lowly really going to die?

However, even if the king of Chu understands, he is still full of vigilance against the nobles at this time, and the long is long, and the time is at this time.

Zuo Yin just hoped that this time Wei Chu and Han would join the alliance and the king of Chu would visit the border of Chen Cai to completely break with the Mo family, so as to prompt Chu Mo to start a war.

To say that if you win the battle, there has been no example of the country that died in a war before, even if it was the attack of the Wu State on Chu in the past, it was not the final restoration of the country?

Moreover, after the defeat of the war, the closest to Sishang is Chen Caidi, after the prince set the incident, the king of Chu directly governed it, and ceded to the Mo family to greatly reduce the power of the king of Chu, and was able to reach out to Wei and Han to jointly oppose Moxi, isn't it beautiful? It can't be said that the Mo family won the war, but they ceded the noble fief in the heart of the Chu State, right?

Besides, it can also allow the Chu people to establish hatred for the Mo family, as long as they fight, they will die, and the most people who die are still apprentices, and when the time comes, it will be said that your father and brothers were killed by the Mo family, and whoever does not oppose the Mo family is disloyal and unfilial, and the morality of the Mo family can be reduced by suppressing the morality of the Mo family.

But the nobles considered these, except for the last one, which were unwilling of the king of Chu.

There are so many forces of the king of Chu, and there are only those directly under his jurisdiction, if there is a war with the Mo family, the private pawns of the nobles can only be subordinate, and the real main force has to be the new army, and the nobles are happy to be defeated, and the royal power will decline.

If there is a war, let the nobles go to the battlefield with their private soldiers, of course, they can tacitly agree with the Mo family to recreate a battle of Daliang City that "the king of Zhigui dies more", opening up the way for centralization of power.

But once the operation is not done properly, the king of Chu is only afraid that the Mo family will rush to the hinterland of Chu State, and there is no need to occupy it often, as long as it is like Qi Southwest, the Chu State will be finished...... After all, the king of Chu knew the consequences of those noble private soldiers fighting with Si Shang's righteous master.

Moreover, now that Chen Cai's division is part of the main army of the Wang Division, which county soldiers and noble private soldiers are called? How could the nobles agree to the behavior of the main force of the royal master not moving but letting the nobles send them to death?

And most importantly, what should I do if I start a war with the Mo family at this time? If it remains unchanged, sooner or later the state of Chu will end, this King of Chu knows very well in his heart, even if he does not forget to Sishang, he will die in Wei Qin, so what difference does it make for the descendants of the Chu family?

The matter of the Anlu region, the king of Chu is actually not unacceptable, the slogan is anti-aristocratic not anti-king, I hope that the king Shengming will centralize power to suppress the aristocratic ministers and blood-sucking merchants, although the approach is not advisable, I am afraid that there will be a lesson in the future, but at least I can use the power to hit the nobles.

Now it is good that the nobles are the first to take the lead in attacking, and they want to use this matter to eliminate the Mo people and force Mo Chu to go to war to weaken the royal power.

As soon as Zuo Yin's words were finished, a large group of aristocratic ministers said yes, thinking that this was the solution to the problem.

Xiong thought to himself, if I hadn't taken Che Guang Xinjun with me, I was afraid that you would have to be admonished. Fortunately, the prince is in Dongting, and the prince of the prison country is a law-changer, so it can be maintained for the time being.

However, everyone is making trouble, which is actually a statement: the nobles are already dissatisfied and even can't stand the change, and today's support for Zuo Yin is to show his attitude and let the king of Chu think about it himself.

At the time of the stalemate, a close attendant came in and reported: "Yan Zhi went to Shangqiu and issued a declaration, stating that if all countries did not interfere with the Mo family, they would withdraw from the Song Dynasty without leaving a single soldier; If the countries intervene, the Mohists will not hesitate to shed the blood of the last Mo in order to fulfill the covenant and the general righteousness. ”

"The Mo family has sent an envoy to 'see' the king."

The king of Chu was not surprised when he heard this, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately changed the topic and said: "Yan Zhishi came to Shangqiu in person, and it was he who said it himself, and the affairs of the Song State ...... I'm afraid it's irreparable. ”